The approach taken in this volume to the complex ongoing processes of change in the border regions where “China meets Southeast Asia” is definitely from…

This book, edited by Isabelle Thireau (CNRS / EHESS, Paris) and Wang Hansheng (Department of Sociology, Peking University), is the fruit of several years of…

Philip Huang set up a Los Angeles-based study group to examine Chinese law, and has created a collection with Stanford University Press, this being the…

Having represented state ideology from one end of eastern Asia to the other for two thousand years, Confucianism today is no more than a mark…

Reputed to be rather on the reform side in the mid-1980s, the author of this work, who is currently Chairman of the Chinese Academy of…

This is the most complete study so far of the relationship between China and globalisation, with a particular focus on the consequences for China’s domestic…

In the second half of 1999 the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji, publicly announced an apparent departure…

This handsome volume contains the main contributions to a conference held in Hamburg in 1999 by the Hamburg Institute of Asian Affairs and the Institute…

A large house overlooking the port of Copenhagen and, next to the sea in Sokdsberg, an enormous summer residence, full of children and loyal domestic…